Confusion With Foreign Words? Lost in France.

My parents drove into a town in Northern France and looked for a hotel. It was getting dark. They spied a large hotel, with a couple of lights still on. We drove around the one way system. By the time we found the entrance to the complex the last light was off except the one over the sign which read Hotel de Ville. Why had the City Hotel shut so early?

We found out later. It was not the city hotel. It was the town hall.

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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.